BIOLOGY IN HUMAN AFFAIRS 



discovery due to psychological research, yet the situation 

 cannot be amended by laboratory technique. It needs a 

 fundamental change in our entire attitude. The fact is that 

 the members of the human race have lied to each other, 

 continuously and systematically, since speech began. They 

 started on this invidious course through ignorance, per- 

 haps; they continue it, in part, through ignorance; but 

 in the main they persist in it because they are afraid to 

 face reality. Can such a mental condition, rooted in the 

 dawn of human experience, be changed? I am an optimist 

 on the subject. It is changing — changing quite rapidly, as 

 any one historically inclined should know. And those who 

 have made the shift are satisfied that life is richer and more 

 attractive than ever before. The known is not always 

 pleasing, but it is less terrifying than the unknown. 



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